Rednersville WI Tweedsmuir Community History - Book 3, p. 31

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After Victoria Church was built in 1897, Sunday School was held in the Church. In August eafh year, for many years the Sunday School held an ice cream social. Up until the mid thirties the ice cream, thirty gallons of it, was homemade, prepared in the afternoon in ice cream freezers and kept frozen in cream cans, packed with ice, until served at the evening social. Sometimes a gallon or two was eaten up in the afternoon with all the children of the neighbourhood interested in testing it and licking off the heaters. For many years all the Sunday Schools of the Township held a township Sunday School picnic. At one time it was held in Mr. Will Weese's woods and later in Redner's woods at Rednersville where a huge parade was held with floats depicting each department in the Sunday School. Victoria always went "all out" on their floats, and usually carried off most of the prizes. These picnics were later held at Twelve O'clock Point. The beginning of World War 2 saw the end of the township picnics. A Township Sunday School Convention also used to be held each year. To improve the standards of our Sunday Schools a tenâ€"point standard was offered by the Dept- in Toronto for the most outstanding Sunday School in the township. The fourteen Sunday SChOOlS competed in seVeral courses - Teacher Training, C.G.I.T., Tuxis Rangers and Trail Rangers, Temperance, Missionary, Adult, Home Dept. and Cradle Roll. Teachers took teacher training courses with the ministers in charge, exams given, stars and certificates awarded. Victoria won the ten-point standard for three years, and it became hers to keep. Tuxis Boys and Trail Rangers were organized under the leadership of our school teacher, Mr. James Grimmon, in 1922-23, with Lorne Brickman as assistant, A CGIT was organized for the girls at the same time by Miss Freda Grimmon of Picton. Under the leadership of Miss Audra Brickman it was carried on for several years. Miss Brickman and seven of her girls went to Camp on the south shore of Consecon Lake in 1925, camping in tents, and taking all their food with them. More recently, in the AO's and 50's, a Mission Band was organized and carried on in Victoria School under the leadership of Mrs. Roy Brickman, Miss Audra Brickman and Mrs. Morris Pulver. There have been many faithful and dedicated workers down through the one hundred years of Victoria Sunday School history. The superintendents during these hundred years have been: Mr. Henry Jason Parliament, Mrs. Charles AdamS, Mr. Simon Lewis Delong, Mr. W. H. Glenn, Mr. Richard Calnan, Mr. David Calnan, Mr. Herb Pulver, Mr. Lorne Brickman for 48 years, Mr. Nelson Vanclief, Mr. Morley Dempsey, Mr. Morris Pulver and Mr. Roy Wetherall. We pay tribute to the many conscientious and faithful teachers and workers who have given so freely of their time and talents. 53?’

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